Sunday, April 22, 2012

OCCUPY4PRISONERS PRESENTS
In Solidarity with the Occupy the Justice Department protest in Washington, DC
on Tuesday, April 24th - Mumia Abu-Jamal's 58th Birthday
End Mass Incarceration!
4PM - RALLY at 14th and Broadway, Oakland
Occupy4Prisoners and supporters will rally at Oscar Grant Plaza,
where awareness and understanding regarding the brutality and
corruption within the United States INjustice system will begin to
rise up. We will be doing educational outreach about the prison
system with music, speakers, a "Truth Mob" and amplifying the voices
of people inside of prisons.
5PM - MARCH to Federal Building and Obama Headquarters
We will take to the streets to march as an expression of our
solidarity with the 2.5 million people incarcerated in the
country. The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any
country, with 743 people in prison per 100,000 of national
population. Occupy4Prisoners brings to the attention of the greater
Occupy Movement how we cannot forget the bottom 1% of the 99% in our
greater struggle for justice and equality.
The march will continue past the Federal Building (13th and Clay)
where representatives from the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia
and the Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal will speak. Folks from
the Bradley Manning Support Network will share information about
Bradley's plight when we reach the Obama Headquarters (17th and
Telegraph.) Then we will march to...
6PM - THE INJUSTICE SYSTEM ON TRIAL - 19th and Telegraph
Once we arrive at the 19th and Telegraph Plaza, we will be putting
the Injustice System on trial. Powerful local activists will preside
over a trial that is actually about the truth.
The prosecutor will be Anita Wills, (Oscar Grant Committee and
Occupy4Prisoners), the defense attorney will be Deborah Small, (Break
the Chains), and the judge will be Jerry Elster (All of Us or None).
The system will be played by Dan Siegel (National Lawyers Guild).
The jury will be YOU!
These witnesses will be bringing evidence against the system
regarding the following charges:
1. Targeting youth of color
Chris M, Occupy Oakland
Sagnicthe Salazar, Youth Together and Xicana Moratorium Coalition
2. Allowing murder and assault by police to go unpunished
Denika Chatman, Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation
Carey Downs & Dionne Smith Downs, A Mother's Cry for Justice
3. Enforcing racism at every level
Jabari Shaw, Rapper, Laney College Black Student Union
Manuel La Fontaine, All of Us or None and Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
4. Holding political prisoners hostage
Kiilu Nyasha, Independent journalist and former Black Panther
Aaron Mirmalek, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee Oakland
5. Torturing people inside the prisons
Sharena Curley, Oscar Grant Committee
Luis "Bato" Talamantez, California Prison Focus and one of the San Quentin Six
6. Conspiring to commit mass incarceration
Linda Evans, All of Us or None and former political prisoner
Ghetto Prophet, Onyx Organizing Committee and spoken word artist
More information:
http://www.occupy4prisoners.org/
www.occupythejusticedepartment.com
occupy4prisoners@gmail.com

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